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Funding to solve night shift fatigue
The Health Foundation has awarded £56,000 to Northumbria University, Newcastle and the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to find new ways to support staff working night shifts on the labour wards.
Many night shift staff report how fatigue can have an impact on how well they are able to do their job, as well as on their physical health and psychological well-being. As a result of the funding, researchers will work closely with midwives, doctors, nurses, operating department practitioners and healthcare assistants in the Royal Victoria Infirmary, exploring and testing better ways to help people to manage their sleep and fatigue during long night shifts.
They will provide staff with wearable activity monitors and an app specially developed by Sleep and Fatigue Research to help people monitor their sleep wake patterns and predict how their fatigue will affect them over the next 20 hours.
Nancy Redfern, Consultant Anaesthetist and project lead at Newcastle Hospitals said: “The labour ward can be a busy place at night, and however hard we try, tiredness affects everyone’s performance. We hope that by using ideas from the whole team of midwives, nurses and doctors that we can develop a way of managing their night shift fatigue in a way that genuinely improves staff well-being and morale. It will be good for patients and good for the whole team.”
The funding has been awarded as part of The Health Foundation’s Innovating for Improvement programme.
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